Top fund manager Bruce Berkowitz says he believes financials like AIG and Bank of America remain the best value opportunities in the market right now, even though they jumped sharply…
Category: Historical Lessons
Zweig: Fund Flow Lessons Are Complicated
About $66 billion has flowed into stock funds and exchange-traded funds this year, leading some to say that it’s a contrarian sign to sell stocks. But on The Wall Street…
How To Keep Emotion At Bay
Through the wonders of modern technology, it is simpler than ever to employ a systematic, proven approach to investing. But, as Chuck Jaffe notes in a recent MarketWatch column, investors…
Simple Advice From An Investing Legend
Vanguard Founder Jack Bogle has some simple advice for investors: Invest — and don’t peek. “Nothing,” Bogle tells Canada’s Globe and Mail when asked what keeps him awake at night. “Just…
Buffett On Debt, Index Funds, and More
In an interview with CBS’ Sunday Morning, Warren Buffett says he’s not worried about the U.S. debt. A rising debt/GDP ratio isn’t good, he says, and the country does need…
Hot List: Embrace The Fear
In his bi-weekly Hot List newsletter, Validea CEO John Reese offers his take on the markets and investment strategy. In the latest issue, John talks about some of the current fears…
Shiller Still Not Sure About Housing Rebound
While many believe the housing market has turned a corner, Yale housing guru Robert Shiller isn’t so sure. Shiller tells Bloomberg that while short-term indicators are up, that also happened…
Ritholtz's 10 Trends To Watch
Barry Ritholtz of FusionIQ and The Big Picture blog recently offered his “10 Trends to Watch in Finance for 2013”, and among them is “The death of buy-and-hold has been…
Sonders: Housing Recovery Should Continue -- And Help Labor Market
Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders — whose calls on both housing and the economy have been quite accurate over the long term — says housing should continue…
O'Shaughnessy: Focus On The Numbers, Not The Headlines
Quantitative investing guru James O’Shaughnessy says investors should “completely ignore” the headlines and buy stocks. “You should completely ignore them,” O’Shaughnessy said of headlines on The Wall Street Journal’s Markets…